After I changed and improved my diet, started eating right in other words, I noticed after a while (and it does take a little while for new growth to reflect the change) that my hair was growing REALLY FAST! And was shiny and healthy looking too!!!

This change came about when I discovered a book on nutrition and how it really affects everything in a woman's body.  And since I can't swallow pills, I concentrated on high nutritional eating. 

So it is definitely possible to improve the condition of your hair with food only.  It worked for me.  (Plus I feel better overall too!) 

Annelise

P.S.  The book that helped me to understand the importance of overall good nutrition is by Marilyn M. Shannon.
It's called  "Fertility, Cycles and Nutrition."  (Take what applies to you, leave what doesn't!)

Hmmm...I'm a bit sceptical about this whole thing. I have always had very good skin and good hair, though my diet hasn't been very healthy. In my case, I just have good genes. I don't say that things couldn't be even better, but I don't think that eating optimally does miracles, nor that a less than optimal diet is disastrous.

Now I'm on a diet, and a bit troubled of how it will affect my hair. But then...now I'm taking hair vitamins (biotin & silica) that I didn't take before starting the diet, so hopefully the end result isn't worse.

I'm not a vegetarian either, but I still eat only little red meat. I don't think this is a problem: one doesn't really need much meat in order to fulfill her nutritional needs. Besides red meat, there is chicken, fish, eggs, beans and peas. If one tries to eat a little of everything, I don't think that leaving something away would be bad. Besides its protein content, meat isn't that healthy. 

I 'm a vegetarian, haven't any eaten meat since I was about 8 or 9 years old. I don't think the lack of protein has hurt my hair. My hair seems to have really grown fast in the last few years, I take vitamins and supplements so that has most likely improved the overall quality of my health including my hair.   I think genetics plays the larger part in hair length because my mother had long hair at various times and so did my two aunts (and they were on my father's side) so I inherited the long hair gene from two sides.  

I take a heap of supplements and must say I think it would be cheaper to eat  .  But I've almost given up that that is going to happen so I'll just keep trying to improve and take supplements unless I ever get there.  I do believe supplements keep me kicking and I don't think you have to have meat to be healthy - it appears (according to my doc) that if you don't eat meat *the red bloody stuff* you may need to take iron supplements.  Something to do with how it absorbs and stores as opposed to the kind we get in spinach, for example ... other'n that gimme chocolate and cheese, g